NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
WEBMay 31, 2014 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared. The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
WEBJun 21, 2013 · The stigma of white trash remains an active part of our fevered cultural imagination, even as some try to reclaim the phrase as a badge of rebellious honor. But few who use the term today—either proudly or as a shaming slur—seem to know about its deep historical entanglements with the politics of sex, race, and class.
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
WEBSep 15, 2009 · Jean Piaget, a psychologist who published his most influential works from the late 1920s through the 1950s, is most known for his theory of stages of cognitive development. He suggested a four-stage model that children go through as they develop more complex reasoning skills. Children start out …
Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence
WEBJul 24, 2013 · Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence. Meghan A. Burke. Special Feature. July 24, 2013. Consider the setting: a racially diverse urban neighborhood where organizers and most residents take a tremendous amount of pride in their community’s racial diversity. But many still think the black kids in their community don ...
Virginity as a Social Construction - There's Research on That
WEBNov 26, 2019 · Virginity as a Social Construction. Allison Nobles and Amber Joy Powell on November 26, 2019. Research shows that by age 18, 65% of people in the US have had sexual intercourse. Graph via Guttmacher Institute. Recently, the American rapper T.I. acknowledged that he attends gynecological examinations with his …
Sex Discrimination in Sports and Society: Why Transgender …
WEBSep 7, 2023 · My own collaborative research results from the 2018-19 National Sports and Society Survey (NSASS), that asked 4,000 U.S. adults about the extent to which they (dis)agreed with allowing transgender athletes to compete with their choice of male or female athletes found majority support for transgender athletes’ rights to choose. Taken together, these findings show increasing opposition to ...
Unity for What? The Togetherness Created by Sports
WEBJan 23, 2017 · The emotional unity created by the long awaited Cubs’ championship season certainly created shared relief and euphoria, and undoubtedly reaffirmed or facilitated horizontal bonding among Chicagoans, but there is little evidence that it facilitated vertical bonds that could be effectively used to bridge structural divides in the city.
Physiognomy: Faces, Bodies, and the “Science” of Human Character
WEBJan 30, 2015 · Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught.Also available on Amazon.The book can best be described as an application of the theory of physiognomy, which is the idea that you can tell all kinds of things about a “person’s character or personality from their ...
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: COLLEGE ENROLLMENT IN CONTEXT
WEBTodd Beer on August 16, 2014. An understanding of the sociological imagination can be difficult in our very individually focused society. As a topic, the sociological imagination is usually the first or second class of every introduction to sociology course. Teaching topics by relating them to students’ immediate context (especially early in ...
Norms, Normality, and Normativity - Sociological Images - The …
WEBSep 23, 2016 · Norms, Normality, and Normativity. Flashback Friday. Sociologists distinguish between the terms norm, normal, and normative. The norm refers to what is common or frequent. For example, celebrating Christmas is the norm in America. Normal is opposed to abnormal. Even though celebrating Christmas is the norm, it is …